Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those families affected by the Kashmir Earthquake. We certainly seem to be living in an era of natural disasters, demonstrating the fragility of humankind when confronted by such elemental forces. Let’s hope that the fact of Kashmir being a divided territory doesn’t get in the way of the relief effort.

So often, these disasters demonstrate that international co-operation is possible, whilst the rest of the time we resort to the usual destructive competition.